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| Gunman on run after attack on army barracks in Belgium | |
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| A gunman is on the run in Belgium after trying to force his car through the gates of a military barracks, prosecutors in the country have said. Several shots were fired, but no one was hurt. | |
| The man, wearing a balaclava, tried to enter the barracks in Flawinne, near the city of Namur, on Monday. After an exchange of fire the man fled, abandoning the car, prosecutors said. | |
| Attaque de la caserne de #flawinne ce matin. La voiture de l'assaillant a été retrouvée @BelgaImage pic.twitter.com/cPjaLavovc | |
| “No one was hurt, it seems. The man is on the run,” a spokesman for prosecutors in Namur said. “If I look at it from an outsider’s point of view, it seems incomprehensible. Why would you attack a military barracks? There are plenty of weapons there to strike back.” | |
| The newspaper La Dernière heure said officials suspected there might have been a bomb in the car and a bomb disposal squad has been dispatched. The paper added that the car had been found abandoned nearby. | |
| Belgium foiled what authorities called a plot to attack police in January, killing two men in one of several raids against an Islamist group that officials said had been about to launch large-scale attacks. | |
| Since then, soldiers have been guarding several sites across the country, such as the European commission headquarters, embassies and Jewish schools in the capital Brussels. |